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COLLECTIVE MOTION PRESENTS
This Moment That Makes Us
MAY 1, 2026
6:30PM at COCA
6880 WASHINGTON AVE
Join us for an evening of sensory exploration through staged performances and immersive art to share
community, connection, and curiosity.
This Moment That Makes Us
May 1, 2026 @ 6:30pm
COCA: Staenberg Performance Lab
2026 Transformative Event Sponsors
This Moment That Makes Us is an immersive, multi-media, three-section dance performance that explores what it means to be human and how we notice, choose, connect, and transform. Through original choreography, evocative music, and intentional pacing, the performance invites audiences into lived moments rather than a linear story.
Each section unfolds like a chapter of experience, awakening the senses, honoring the space between, and revealing how small, present moments shape who we are becoming.
20th anniversary Featured Company:
Collective Motion Dance Company
Collaborating Companies:
Resilience Dance Company
Ballet 314
Tango Performers:
Convergence Dance & Body: Robert McKenney & Liz Schwarzkopf
Live Poet
Karlee Warthen
Visual Artist:
Abraham Mohler
Featuring Choreography by:
Mary Ellen Bryan
Kathleen Radke Whittaker
Paige Walden
Live Music
Monica Sauer
Lorraine Glass-Harris
Cherry & Jerry
Tom Breadon
Tifa Holman
El Sistema
Sponsorship Sculptor
Justin King
Collaborating Artists and Companies
Founding Company members, from Collective Motion Archives
What to expect
Collective Motion productions are more than a dance performance. The evening will feature staged performances and an interactive reception
Staged Performance
View the live dance performances with choreographer's created landscapes
Feel the vibrations of the live music played by local musicians
Listen to the typewriter as the evening's poetry is crafted throughout the evening
Watch the live sketch artist create a masterpiece throughout the performance
Interactive Reception
Take home personally crafted in-the-moment poetry from Karlee Warthen
Enjoy culinary bites to explore the variations of taste and how it makes us feel
Live Ragtime music by Jerry & Cherry to create the sound of community
Create encouraging cards for hospital patients and families to continue fighting through hardships and show there is always someone caring and thinking about them. In partnership with Courage Canvas